The Playoff Push & Awards Predictions
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss their expectations for the final week of the season as several National League teams jockey for the four available playoff spots, before making their picks (and predictions) for Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and MVP winners in each league.
Rundown
1:43 A Futile Attempt to Understand 2020 Playoff Tie-Breakers
7:20 The National League Playoff Race
18:24 A High Stakes Week in Philadelphia
24:20 Is the Expanded Postseason Here to Stay?
34:27 Rookie of the Year Selections
43:00 Cy Young Selections
51:43 MVP Selections
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| 0:27.6 | season, season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 140. |
| 0:52.0 | It is Monday, September 21st. Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, Brittgeroli here. |
| 0:57.1 | On this episode, we will discuss the final push to make the postseason. Who's in, who's out? |
| 1:03.4 | Also, we're going to talk about the potential longevity of this new expanded playoff format. |
| 1:09.2 | We'll start to give out some hardware as well. |
| 1:11.4 | Rookie of the year, |
| 1:12.5 | Cy Young and MVP award selections for each league. |
| 1:16.5 | So a lot to talk about on this episode, |
| 1:19.3 | a lot of great series on tap for the upcoming week. |
| 1:23.2 | How's it going for you on this Monday, Britt? |
| 1:25.7 | It's going well. |
| 1:26.4 | I kind of like this post |
| 1:28.0 | weekend show. You know, you've watched baseball all weekend. We're here now, the last full |
| 1:33.3 | week of the season. And I think it's going to be awesome. I mean, we've been waiting for this, |
| 1:37.4 | right? The reason why they added so many teams, everyone complained. But this is what you wait for |
| 1:43.1 | now. Is this going to be utter chaos, especially with the NL Wildcard, in the last few days of the season. |
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